Band Interviews

Written By: Madeline McPhail
The release of AWOLNATION’s new album, Here Comes The Runts, is yet again another all killer no filler record. Frontman, Aaron Bruno, intentionally aimed for a more hopeful and uplifting album which is in contrast to the first two studio records they have released. “The first record

Written By: Madeline McPhail
Mark Rizzo, Guitarist from Soulfly, takes his guitar playing skills to the next level with his instrumental guitar records that he started releasing back in 2004. “It’s real heavy stuff, instrumental music with no vocals. I like making the guitar sing with catchy guitar melodies and chord

What is your newest record about? And what inspired it?
It’s about dealing with death, loss, diseases and also about having a connection with people but realizing we don’t live forever. Recently, I’ve dealt with my wife’s miscarriage and her being diagnosed with the disease, MS. When you get older you

Tell me about the new album? What can fans expect from this new album?
We tried to refocus the Mice’s sound, in the past in a lot of ways you’ve been able to hear how Mice of Men has progressed. Musically every album we try to push the envelope for the

Interview by Tim Amoroso
Written by Silvie Mietzekatze
“it really irritates me that people complain about buying music when they spent 500 – 600 dollars on a phone”
Tim: When I heard that I was interviewing you I got really excited, you are my favorite, so thank you for this one…
Charlie: Oh

Interview With Bert McCracken From The Used
Written by: Madeline McPhail
When tragedy and loss fall on us, it’s easy to get lost in but sometimes it’s the pain we experience that reminds us why we are here. For Bert McCracken, lead singer of The Used, his recent loss inspired the band’s

“Every day I ask myself how can I do just one thing to end someone else’s suffering with just one action that I’m taking.” Justin Sane, ANTI FLAG
Interviewed by TIM AMOROSO – written by SILVIE MIETZEKATZE
When ANTI FLAG started in the late 1980’s in Pittsburgh, we needed them. All those

Written by Silvie Mietzekatze
If you’re from Ventura and you have not heard of HARD SIX, you must have been dead for the last couple years. HARD SIX is a Ventura county based Rockabilly band that features FUSE HARDSIX on vocals/ guitar, BILLY VOGELCIDE on upright bass and CHRIS STORY on

Interviewed and written by -- Silvie Mietzekatze
"Play music like you only got 10 seconds left before you’ll die".
Telling someone about the DTEASE, is just as difficult as trying to tell someone about THE best SEX you ever had in your entire life. It seems nearly impossible. THE DTEASE are not

Currently ranking number two on Alt Nation, Alice Merton, shares how traveling and moving around her whole life shaped her into who she is today. The German-British singer grew up living in Canada, Germany and England because her father worked in the mining industry, which had the family moving around

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About No Cover
No Cover Magazine is a music and event publication that launched in May 1997 and has focused on new and upcoming bands along with highlight upcoming events. The publication started off free and was responsible for highlighting and giving some of music’s best talent their first-ever magazine cover. Artists like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (May 1997), Ziggy Marley (August 1997), Ben Harper (Sept. 1997), The Crystal Method (Dec. 1997), Blink 182 (March 1998), Eve6 (April 1998), Linkin Park (Oct. 2000), Alien Ant Farm (March 2001), and later became a world wide newsstand publication and with giving bands their first magazine cover like Pepper (March 2004) and many more! Over the years music and book stores started to close and now the publication is FREE again and continues to highlight new music and events on the west coast with No Cover Ventura, CA and No Cover Phoenix in Arizona with more city publications soon to come!